Re:Suicide has become rarer during the pandemic
by microtherion on Friday April 23, 2021 @05:17PM
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That's a good point. There is evidence that suicide rates sometimes decline during times of external crises, e.g. war.
People are currently unhappy because of the pandemic, and people can point at that and understand that there's an exogenous cause right in all of our faces causing the problem and everyone is affected.
People are much more likely to commit suicide when they just believe that everyone else is doing fine and they're the only ones whose lives are shit.